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Posted inArts & Culture

The American Mercy Tour, United Flight 232, and ten more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader September 14, 2017August 18, 2021

A dual-sided look at health care and an electrifying study of heroism are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel won’t allow the Cubs to play more night games at Wrigley, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 28, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Kendrick Lamar popped up at his own West Loop pop-up shop.

Posted inMusic

Music gifts you can actually wrap

by Peter Margasak November 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Digital downloads haven’t yet driven box sets extinct—and this year the best include Paul Bowles’s Moroccan field recordings, vintage Ray Charles in mono, a 50-year NRBQ retrospective, and ten discs of foundational 40s bebop from Savoy Records.

Posted inMusic

Saxophonist Joe Daley helped pioneer free jazz in the late 50s

by Steve Krakow July 20, 2016August 18, 2021

Joe Daley cut a live trio album at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963 that became an early entry in the free-jazz canon.

Posted inBlogs

Cook County state’s attorney candidate Kim Foxx’s campaign anthem should be Sweet’s ‘Fox on the Run’

by Jake Malooley March 3, 2016August 18, 2021

The only electoral decision that matters: choosing a soundtrack.

Posted inBlogs

Arroyo and Berrios kiss and make up

by Ben Joravsky December 28, 2015August 18, 2021

Democratic Party bosses Luis Arroyo and Joe Berrios reveal their truce, bringing together a holy trinity of election law lawyers to try to kick a rookie state rep candidate off the ballot.

Posted inFilm

The Wrecking Crew reveals the faces behind the hits

by J.R. Jones April 22, 2015August 18, 2021

A long-gestating documentary looks at the session players who created the west-coast sound.

Kanye West signed the wall when he played a benefit concert at the theater in 2009.
Posted inArts & Culture

Show us your . . . walls of autographs

by Jake Malooley September 27, 2014August 18, 2021

After Chicago Theatre shows end, the performers’ John Hancocks remain backstage.

The Look of Love
Posted inFilm

The Look of Love and the flaunting of flesh

by J.R. Jones July 10, 2013August 19, 2021

In The Look of Love, Steve Coogan stars as a legendary British sex impresario.

Posted inMusic

Reader readers built their very own jukebox

by Kevin Warwick March 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Reader readers build their very own jukebox.

Posted inBlogs

How I learned to never go out of style

by Mara Shalhoup May 19, 2012August 19, 2021

An ode to an unsung style icon who bucked popular notions about what’s fashionable

Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: River West

by Kevin Warwick January 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Richard’s Bar in River West takes old school to the next level

Posted inBlogs

Have I ever loved Republicans? Why, sure I have!

by Ben Joravsky January 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Hey, I do like some Republicans!

Posted inMusic

A Homemade Canon

by Michaelangelo Matos March 17, 2011August 19, 2021

Loud Family front man Scott Miller picks his favorites from a half century of pop, and his choices are fun to read about even when they’re hard to agree with.

Posted inReader

A Second Rate Imitation, Watered Down Simulation

by Heartbroker September 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can’t think clearly when I’m dizzy.

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